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Originally Posted by Supersonic
Aloha !
Bon Jovi charts because they incorporate downloads and "free" copies of their album to ticket sales and because of a vaste amount of people buy the album regardless of what's on it. A number 1 nowadays means a whole lot less than it did 10 or 20 years ago. Sure, it's still a number 1, but you no longer need to sell as many albums as you did back then to make it to the number 1 spot.
"Someone with a market budget" was the record company, who no longer felt any desire to prove anyone wrong.
They stopped backing Jon up with decent marketing scheme because of whatever Jon came up with. A lot of money went into the promotion of The Circle and it didn't get the album anywhere. Thus the record company stopped promoting it and Jon blamed the record company instead of the shit album he'd just released.
The reason this stuff doesn't get promoted is because Jon's got his "creative" freedom with the new deal and look where it got us. No one's telling him it's shit now and every album drops off the charts once every loyal fan has bought it. So I'm just not buying it. If you want people's attention you'll need to come up with something decent first. And Jon's just not making the music his fanbase wants anymore, and thus no one will be willing to invest either.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan
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They made a video for every song on THINFS in cooperation with tidal without the RC, right? I think it was the first time that no song of a new album was played on the radio. I usually don't really listen to stations that would play BJ, so I might just have lived in my bubble. I still cannot believe they have chosen tidal a video streaming service where you need to pay to watch the videos.
Same thing with the WWWU video: product placement all over it. Probably the only way to get a video for them without paying for it. I mean has the RC done anything.
So how do other bands get their promotion when there is no money in releasing new music anymore?